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Scarlett Johansson’s $869 Million Dinosaur Blockbuster Named One Of 2026’s Biggest Streaming Hits Yet

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LOS ANGELES — “Jurassic World Rebirth,” the Scarlett Johansson-led dinosaur blockbuster that grossed nearly $870 million at the global box office last year, has landed among the biggest streaming movies of 2026 so far, according to newly released viewership data from Nielsen.

The film ranked third on Nielsen’s mid-year “Streaming Landscape 2026” report, which tracks viewing on connected televisions across the United States between December 29, 2025, and June 28, 2026. “Jurassic World Rebirth” racked up roughly 3.4 billion minutes viewed during that window, trailing only two Netflix original films: the Matt Damon and Ben Affleck crime thriller “The Rip,” which topped the list with about 4.4 billion minutes viewed, and Alan Ritchson’s science-fiction action film “War Machine” in second place.

The film’s placement on the list is notable in part because it is not a Netflix original production. “Jurassic World Rebirth” first arrived on Peacock last October under an existing licensing arrangement between NBCUniversal and Netflix, before landing on Netflix itself in February 2026. That dual-platform release, sometimes referred to in the streaming industry as a “Pay 1” window, gave the film access to two of the largest streaming audiences in the country and is widely credited with helping drive its viewership total well past several theatrical hits that debuted on streaming later in the period, including “Sinners” and “One Battle After Another,” the latter of which failed to crack Nielsen’s top 10 despite winning acclaim during awards season.

Directed by Gareth Edwards from a script by David Koepp, “Jurassic World Rebirth” serves as the seventh installment in the franchise that began with Steven Spielberg’s 1993 original “Jurassic Park.” The film picks up five years after the events of “Jurassic World Dominion” and follows Johansson as Zora Bennett, a covert operations specialist who leads a team on a mission to a remote island once used for secretive genetic research. Their objective is to extract DNA from three of the largest dinosaur species that remain, including a Mosasaurus, a Tyrannosaurus rex and a Titanosaurus, a task complicated when the team encounters a range of genetically modified creatures on the island.

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The film also stars Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo and Ed Skrein, and was produced by longtime franchise collaborators Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley under Amblin Entertainment and Universal Pictures.

Released theatrically on July 2, 2025, “Jurassic World Rebirth” earned approximately $339.6 million domestically on its way to a worldwide total of roughly $869 million, against a production budget reported to be between $180 million and $225 million. While that made it one of the highest-grossing films of last year and the sixth-highest-grossing release of 2025 overall, it fell short of the $1 billion mark reached by several of the franchise’s earlier installments, making it the first “Jurassic” film since “Jurassic Park III” not to cross that threshold. The film also received a nomination for best visual effects at the most recent Academy Awards, marking the first Oscar nomination for the franchise in any category since “The Lost World: Jurassic Park.”

Despite its comparatively softer theatrical performance relative to earlier entries in the series, the film’s streaming success has reinforced Universal’s plans to continue the franchise. A sequel was confirmed to be in development following the film’s theatrical run, though the project hit a setback earlier this year when Edwards departed amid reported creative differences over the direction of the follow-up. It remains unclear who will step in to direct the next installment, or how the change might affect the film’s timeline.

The film’s continued popularity on streaming comes as Johansson prepares for another high-profile franchise turn, joining director Mike Flanagan’s upcoming reboot of “The Exorcist,” slated for release next year. Johansson has emerged as one of the most consistently bankable stars in Hollywood across both theatrical and streaming platforms in recent years, with “Jurassic World Rebirth” marking her second major franchise commitment following her long-running role as Natasha Romanoff, or Black Widow, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Nielsen’s report also highlighted broader trends shaping the streaming landscape during the first half of 2026, including Netflix’s continued dominance of original film production and the growing importance of shared theatrical-to-streaming distribution windows for major studio releases. Alongside “Jurassic World Rebirth,” Universal’s animated hit “How to Train Your Dragon” also benefited from an early Peacock-to-Netflix shared window, landing at number 15 on the same chart. Netflix additionally claimed several of the top spots among family and animated titles during the period, led by its in-house original “KPOP Demon Hunters,” which ranked second overall among all films with more than 5.5 billion minutes viewed.

The Nielsen data underscores a broader shift in how audiences are consuming major theatrical releases, with streaming viewership increasingly rivaling — and in some cases surpassing — the cultural impact of a film’s original box office run. For “Jurassic World Rebirth,” that shift appears to have extended its commercial life well beyond its theatrical release window, cementing its place as one of the defining blockbusters of the past year even as the franchise’s next chapter remains in flux following its director’s exit.

“Jurassic World Rebirth” is currently available to stream on Netflix.

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An expansion proposal by the airport’s owners would enable it to accommodate 150m passengers per year. Heathrow said “the case for expansion has never been clearer”.

In a statement, it added: “Our plans will ensure the country gets the infrastructure it needs to stay competitive and will deliver all-important economic growth.”

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Stephanie Hussey – Chief Financial Officer
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Ernie Ortiz Ortega – Co-Founder, President, CEO & Director

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Altius Q2 2026 Financial Results Conference Call.

[Operator Instructions] This call is being recorded on Tuesday, August 11, 2026.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Flora Wood, VP of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

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Flora Wood
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Thank you, Vincent. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to our Q2 2026 conference call.

Our press release and interim filings came out yesterday after the close and are available on our website. This event is being webcast live, and you’ll be able to access a replay of the call along with the presentation slides that have been added both to the home page in the Investors section of our website at altiusminerals.com.

Brian Dalton, CEO; and Stephanie Hussey, CFO, will speak on the call; and Ernie Ortiz, VP Corp Dev and Head of Lithium is also here as a resource for us in the Q&A.

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Thank you, Flora, and good morning, everybody.

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Target announced it has appointed its first ever chief artificial intelligence officer on Tuesday in the retailer’s latest bet to capitalize on the AI boom.

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The company named Chandhu Nair as its chief AI officer and senior vice president and also announced Purvi Shah as the company’s senior vice president of user experience.

“The most meaningful AI stories won’t be about what happens in a lab,” Nair said in a statement. “They’ll be about what happens on the front line – how we make shopping easier for a guest, give a team member a better tool, make a business decision with more confidence or bring a new idea to market faster.”

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“About a year ago, I really started feeling like this next run, you could see what agentic commerce was going to look like, the vision for AI shopping, and I started thinking about everything that needs to happen over the next few years, and it really caused me to think that now was the right time [to step down],” McMillon said at the time.

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